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Check Out Ireland's Biggest Twitter Trends Of 2019

"If it happens in the world, it happens on twitter" With 2020 nearly upon us, twitter's statistician...
Stewart Griffin
Stewart Griffin

4:00 PM - 10 Dec 2019



Dave Moore

Check Out Ireland's Biggest Twitter Trends Of 2019

Stewart Griffin
Stewart Griffin

4:00 PM - 10 Dec 2019

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"If it happens in the world, it happens on twitter"

With 2020 nearly upon us, twitter's statisticians have done some serious number-crunching to reveal all the top trends from 2019.

And it seems that Larry, the little blue bird, is flapping his wings faster than ever, with 145 million people using the platform on a daily basis.

It will come as no surprise to you that #Brexit was Ireland's most tweeted about topic during the year - plus the top trender internationally - but what else peaked our interest in the world of handles and hashtags?

Dermot and Dave chat to the Senior Executive at Twitter Ireland, Barry Collins, about what was hot - like remember when were blown away by Storm Lorenzo without actually being blown away? Talk about an anti-climax:

 

Bad news for Man U fans as @LiverpoolFC were the most mentioned sports franchise in Ireland:

 

Forget Peaky Blinders & Game of Thrones, @LoveIsland was the most talked about TV show here over the past 12 months. Well it did have a pretty big Irish influence in Maura and Greg:

 

Who made it #1 on the top music handles? The American Sweetheart himself, of course:

 

Then there's the 'Ballyhaunis 3':

 

And what about one of the best tweets ever - it's...............#WagathaChristie

 

Jonathan Walters' retirement also struck a chord:

 

As did Bonnie Greer having our back on the world stage:

 

Check out Barry's update in full by pressing the play button on screen.

 


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